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F. WESEL. PRINTEBS FURNITURE.

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W/ TNE SSE S UNITED STATES PATENT 7 OFFICE.

FERDINAND WVESEL, OF NEW YORK N. Y.

PRINTERS FURNITURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 619,060, dated February '7, 1899.

Application filed February 19, 1898. Serial No. 670,891. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FERDINAND WEsEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the borough of Brooklyn and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Printers Furniture, of which the following is a specification.

The socalled printers labor-saving furniture heretofore employed in printing-offices was usually made of wooden blocks of various lengths and widths, as required in looking up and adjusting book or other pages, known as forms, into a chase. Said wooden furniture has the disadvantage of changing with the temperature by shrinking, warping, or swelling, so that it is rendered uneven. It also wears uneven and soon loses its more or less accurate original shape, thus necessitating the frequent replacing by entirely new' sets where accurate Work is required.

The object of my invention is to furnish in placeof wooden furniture a labor-saving furniture made of seamless tubular metal, preferably sheet-steel, which is drawn to the proper size; and the invention consists of printers labor-saving furniture made of sheet metal drawn to proper shape and according to the different lengths and the absolutely accurate widths required.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures 1, 2, and 3 represent perspective views of different sizes of my improved labor-saving metallic furniture forprinting-oflices. Figs.4 and 5 are vertical transverse sections respectively on line 4 4, Fig. 2, and 5 5, Fig. 3.

My labor saving printers furniture is drawn from sheet metal, preferably sheetsteel, any height and being cut off to the required length. For making the seamless sheet-metal furniture a as many dies as there are sizes have to be made, the furniture be ing drawn on said dies in the usual manner, so that rectangularly-arran ged side walls from end to end are produced. The furniture a may be provided at the ends at b with short wooden or other metallic blocks, which are fitted snugly in the same, so as to prevent the ingress of dust to the interior of the furniture, or a central transverse block may be inserted, both as indicated in dotted lines, Figs. 2 and 3. WVith this labor-saving metallic furniture the advantages claimed over any other now in use are that no matter What amount of pressure is usually brought to bear upon such furniture in the forms it will in no way injure its true and original shape and accurate proportions and thatitcan be used for any length of time without deterioration or any change in the same. This metallic labor-saving furniture will also save a great deal of time over any other on account of its being so accurate and remaining so, as all wood and softmetal furniture soon becomes so inaccurate that pages of type and forms are thrown out of true, and the furniture cannot be depended upon, thus causing trouble and great delay in adjusting it. All this is overcome by this furniture. Nor does the washing of forms with water and lye affect my furniture in the least, as in wooden furniture, which swells it out of shape. Another great advantage is the lightness of construction of this metallic furniture, as it makes the forms almost as light as if locked up with wood, and, again, where several pages are required to be made up requiring accurate register this metallic furniture, being always true and accurate, facilitates things greatly, saving a great deal of time and assuring an absolute register to pages on reverse sides. This is especially so in regard to color-work, which requires absolute register, and the present invention will be found to be indispensable because of its always remaining true and accurate.

I am aware that printers furniture has been made of honeycombed metallic structures of suitable size and shape, and I do not, therefore, broadly claim printers furniture of metal; but I am not aware that previous to my invention it was ever proposed to construct printers furniture which is light in weight of suitable lengths of tubular sheet metal.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1. Printers furniture, composed of rectangular and seamless metallic tubing, substantially as set forth.

2. Printers furniture, composed of rectangular and seamless metallic tubing having four continuous side walls from end to end.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FERDINAND WESEL.

Witnesses:

PAUL GOEPEL, GEO. W. J AEKEL. 

